Entry № 10465 · Spanish origin

Teresa Teresa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-REH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Harvester; from the island of Therasia"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "harvester; from the island of therasia".

Teresa is the Spanish form of Theresa — of disputed origin, possibly from the Greek therizein (to harvest) or from the small Greek island of Therasia near Santorini.

Teresa has been continuously in the U.S. top 500 for over a century. Today it sits in the U.S.

Harvester; from the island of Therasia — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Teresa
Transliteration
Teresa
Pronunciation
/ təˈriː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Teresa stands.

Teresa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Teresas before her.

Real people
Saint Teresa of Ávila
Spanish Carmelite mystic, Doctor of the Church.
1515 – 1582
Mother Teresa
Albanian-Indian Catholic missionary. Nobel Peace Prize 1979.
1910 – 1997
In fiction

Names connected to Teresa.

The number behind Teresa.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Teresa reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.